You are crazy to go to Mexico especially without a license.
I remember going to Matamoros, Tamaulipas in the mid 1980's and had to show my license going in and out.
I spent a ton of time in Mexico in the eighty’s.
I always had my papers in order was always polite and always aware.
I don’t think I would go there now.
I’d feel safer in the UAE or Cypress.